Xu Mochen and his party came to the National Research Institute.
There was a group of people waiting in the hall. Xu Mochen looked over and saw that these people were all powerful and had thick calluses on their palms. They were obviously people who had been engaged in physical labor for a long time.
"Sir," Li Yihang introduced, "these are the forging and smelting craftsmen of Jinzhou. I can't say that they are the best in Daqian, but they are also top masters."
The leader of the group was a middle-aged man. He had known Xu Mochen's identity for a long time. He stepped forward and saluted: "Duan Bailian, a common man in Jinzhou, a country man who doesn't know the rules, please forgive me."< /p>
"That's all," Xu Mochen didn't care, he waved his hand, "Jinzhou is not far from the capital. I have read the geography. It is rich in minerals, so smelting technology was derived."
"Your Majesty," Duan Bailian put on a high hat and went over, "In Jinzhou, in addition to iron ore and copper mines, there are also coal mines, so it has been a good place for smelting weapons since ancient times."
In ancient times, logistics was underdeveloped and transportation was very troublesome. Local materials became the key to the growth of many technologies.
Jinju is uniquely endowed with the ability to develop forging and smelting technology.
Duan Bailian waved his hand, and someone immediately came forward holding a rectangular box.
"Your Majesty," he laughed, "this is a sword crafted by our Duan family. Now I present it to Your Majesty. I wish Your Majesty prosperity, peace and prosperity for the country and the people."
Xu Mochen glanced with his consciousness and already knew that there was a sword in the box. He also became interested: "Take it and take a look."
Opening the box and handing it to Xu Mochen, he felt a rush of cold air.
Xu Mochen was slightly surprised. This was a sword made by the human race, but its level was actually as good as the swords in the fairy world.
It's just that the sword doesn't have the runes of an immortal cultivator, so it can't absorb spiritual energy, so the effect is a little less effective.
But the quality is really nothing to say.
"This is steel," Xu Mochen smiled, "and it's not just ordinary steel. I didn't expect you to be able to forge it."
He picked up the sword and touched it lightly, and the box split into two halves.
The modern craftsmanship that Xu Mochen knows, the sword produced is about this level.
"What is the current level of Daqian's smelting?" He was very satisfied and put the sword aside. No matter how good the weapon was, it could not be popularized among all the people. This was not Xu Mochen's focus.
"Your Majesty," Duan Bailian stepped forward to report, "Brother Li, Cao Min and others have said that what your Majesty wants is steel."
Xu Mochen nodded. He was right, but not entirely.
Regarding smelting technology, although Xu Mochen is a time traveler, he is not a know-it-all.
He knew a little about the principles of steelmaking. To put it simply, it was based on iron, further removing the impurities contained in the iron, and injecting more carbon elements to make it undergo structural changes, and then become steel.
He pays attention to the smelting level because in addition to steel, he also needs other metals to smelt.
The modern industrial system is a huge and complete structure that cannot be realized by just making one kind of metal.
"Let's talk about steel first." Everything is difficult at the beginning, so he thought it would be better to start with the easy ones.
"Actually, this steel was discovered a long time ago," Duan Bailian is familiar with the development history of Daqian smelting technology. "In ancient times, in addition to smelting bronze and iron, occasionally technicians could also make steel.
Of course, there were more accidental factors at that time, because the temperature of the fire, forging, tempering, etc. were all figured out bit by bit."
Xu Mochen nodded, if there are immortal cultivators to help, tempering with strange fire, the effect will definitely be good.
But immortal cultivators don’t care about the level of technological development of the human race. It is estimated that the methods introduced at that time were only the simplest methods.
Everything has been accumulated bit by bit by the human race over hundreds of thousands of years.
This is the crystallization of historical wisdom.
Duan Bailian over there continues to introduce.
It has been accumulated from generation to generation, and now, steelmaking can be said to be a relatively common technology.
One is Baidu Steelmaking. The so-called Baidu Steelmaking is actually the process of forging and smelting in which iron is continuously heated and forged repeatedly.
Even hundreds of times.
Through forging, the impurities in the iron are separated to obtain the best results.
There is also a type called steel-filling, which smelts pig iron and wrought iron together, and fuses them to further promote the formation of steel.
No matter which method is used, manual labor is essential.
"The sword brought by Cao Min was made with Baidu's steel-making technology," Duan Bailian said, his face gradually becoming depressed; "However, these skills mentioned by Cao Min can only make relatively large things.< /p>
What kind of injection needle did Brother Li show to the grassroots? If it is so small, there is really nothing the grassroots can do."
In other words, with current technology, there is no way to directly turn molten steel into molten steel for cooling, shaping and pouring.
"Do you have a diagram of your steelmaking equipment?" Xu Mochen asked.
"Yes," Duan Bailian took out a piece of paper and handed it over, "Before I came, I thought that Your Majesty might need it, so I asked someone to describe the smelting process."
Xu Mochen took it over and looked at it. It was written in great detail. Basically all the tools that could be used in this era were used.
But this is not enough.
"I have a new smelting technology," Xu Mochen pondered and slowly spoke. "In the process of firing molten iron, we can remove as many impurities as possible and turn it into steel in one step."
As soon as these words came out, Duan Bailian backed away in fright.
You are the emperor, how come you still know how to make steel?
It’s unreasonable. Don’t all emperors either go to court or go to the harem?
Xu Mochen didn't notice Duan Bailian's surprise: "For more details, I will give you the information when the time comes, you can refer to it for study.
But you don’t have to blame yourself. Now I have temporarily found an alternative way to produce injection needles. If they are made of steel, please wait for a while.
I see you today because there are some issues that need you to study together."
Duan Bailian was stunned for a moment. As expected of an emperor, he couldn't understand some of the words he said.
But I can roughly understand it.
Xu Mochen signaled that he would later ask Li Yihang to find Fang Minghang and Fang Mingying's brother and sister.
He entered another room, scanned his consciousness, confirmed that there was no problem, and then took out the ring-shaped armature generator that Daoguo had bartered from the Qizang Divine Mansion.
This generator is an early version, and its structure is not complicated. Xu Mochen has studied the principles of electromagnetism and knows the origin of power generation.
When everything was ready, he went back and brought the people over.
"This is called a generator," Xu Mochen patted the machine, "I mean, you can use it to generate electricity."
Well, I also admit that the so-called electricity may be too profound for you.
Fang Mingying frowned: "Your Majesty, the electricity you are talking about is the electricity of wind, rain, thunder and lightning?"
They have all seen lightning in the sky on thundery and rainy days, and it is very powerful.
Therefore, His Majesty is preparing to create a new type of weapon.
Realizing this, everyone's expressions changed.
Some of them have seen it, and some have heard that this thunder can easily kill someone.
Now that the world is unified, what else does Your Majesty need new weapons for?